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they actually have stuff like these SATA to IDE/IDE to SATA Drive Interface Adapter that converts your parallel-ata drives to sata so that they can connect to sata motherboards.

one drawback is that the converter board requires a floppy power connector but some of em provide a molex to floppy converter wire for free with the drive adapter. another drawback is that they could be glitchy and buggy with some sata motherboards refusing to detect a drive converted/connected in this way.

any fairly recent motherboard from 2008 or earlier shud still have parallel ata connectors, parallel ports and ps2 ports on the board. i'd go for one of the lga 775 boards based on the intel 965p chipset like these: gigabyte 965p-ds3. on the back panel it has 1 serial and 1 parallel port and ps2 kb and mouse ports plus one parallel-ata port onboard.

do note that the recent PCs post-2010 only come with one ps2 connector for either the kb or the mouse but not both together at the same time...

good thing about it is that it supports those 3ghz core 2 quad extreme cpus which is great for heavy multitasking and yet still provides good enuff per core performance (as its 3ghz) for running single-threaded games like ds2.

if u are a storage whore like me and really must have plenty of parallel-ata connectors, there's this foxconn 945p7aa board with 3 pata connectors allowing 6 pata drives to be connected in total. tho one drawback is that it only supports those pentium 4 prescotts which run superhot and have to run with noisy powerful cooling fans as a result.

lastly, u can also get these pci and pci express parallel-ata expansion cards to connect even more drives.

ok, i shall stop now lest my post gets detected as an adbot spamming stuff for sales and gets deleted. :mrgreen: